On Monday, Crean told reporters on the Big Ten coaches teleconference that he offered an apology to Meyer for the incident Sunday night shortly after it happened.

"The one thing I want to get out of the way, because I don't want it to take away from the game at all is a professional misunderstanding I had with coach Jeff Meyer after the game," Crean said. "Later that night, on the way to the plane actually, I talked to him on the telephone. We discussed a couple things, I apologized for that.

"In retrospect, I wish I never would have addressed anything after the heat of battle in a game. But, we move on. That's what I've done in that situation. End of story. Now our focus is completely on helping our team improve this week."

The back story to this is obviously Meyer's time as a former assistant at Indiana before Crean arrived. Meyer served as an assistant for Sampson from 2006-08.

Sampson was forced to resign during the 2008 season after massive NCAA violations surfaced, mainly surrounding multiple impermissible phone calls he made to recruits -- which, at the time, was over the legal limit.

Meyer was cleared of any major violations by the NCAA, and eventually joined John Beilein's staff at Michigan as administrative specialist in 2008. Meyer was then promoted to a full-time assistant on Beilein's bench in 2010.